I am vinay raikar,a guy, in his mid twenties, textovert, self-centered at times but non egoistic, minimalist, wannabe ascetic, dance & music lover, a Daivadnya, a VTU Graduate, an Infoscion.

Though I studied 'Electronics & Communication' for my graduation, I always loved Computers. As part of my day job, I work on Mainframes [COBOL, JCL, DB2, NOMAD 4GL]. Web development [PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML/XHTML, CSS] is my hobby. I'm not a designer but I love designing little graphics with Inkscape & GIMP.

I'm not a voracious blogger, If I blog, you can find them at My mind - a personal blog, Raikar designs - a design blog, Workground - a tech blog. I love twitter, so you can very well find me micro-blogging all the time here.

Here are some things I would like you to see, tweetbook.in - an app to get a pdf ebook of your twitter status updates | vinayraikar.com/twitter some of my twitter applications | appb.in- an application bin containing applications that I have developed | logos- some logos that I have designed | Inkscape tutorials- some old Inkscape tutorials.

You can get in touch with me at LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, deviantArt, delicious, netvibes. My gmail id is rockraikar.